捕風捉影 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 捕风捉影 bǔfēngzhuōyǐng ㄅㄨˇ ㄈㄥ ㄓㄨㄛ ㄧㄥˇ lit. chasing the wind and clutching at shadows (idiom) fig. groundless accusations to act on hearsay evidence Character by character 捕(bǔ)catch 風(fēng)wind 捉(zhuō)clutch 影(yǐng)picture A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0